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  1. R

    Overflow pipe

    Friends Talking about over flow pipe. The pipe is 20 mm odd. Now then, is it solvent weld or push fit? I'll tell you why after!
  2. T

    22mm toilet overflow pipe

    Hi all, Just on the last knockings of my bathroom refurb. I need to extend the 22mm plastic overflow pipe to the toilet. I assumed this was 21.5mm until I tried some solvent weld fittings that were overly tight. Where can I get fittings at 22mm? Are they solvent weld or some kind of push fit...
    • Trev78
    • Thread
    • overflow pipe toilet
    • Replies: 41
    • Forum: Boilers
  3. A

    Dripping hot water cylinder overflow pipe

    Hi, I have copper hot water cylinder in the loft wrapped with a puffa jacket. Its a very old fashion type of copper cylinder where you can simply lift the top off. I've noticed the cylinder has been leaking lately as water has leaked through the ceiling. When I've been in the loft to inspect...
    • Adam78
    • Thread
    • cylinder hot water overflow pipe water water cylinder
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Bathroom Advice
  4. A

    Overflow Pipe indoors

    Hi, I've recently purchased a new property and need to replace the hot water system. The property only has electric and for simplicity I'm thinking of fitting a vented, direct water cylinder. The overflow pipe on the current system comes through the bathroom wall and terminates just above the...
  5. S

    Constant water stream in overflow pipe

    Hello I am brand new to this forum and wondered if anyone knows how to stop what looks like a constant overflow water stream through the tundish. I have a tribune HE unvented cylinder ? I'm sure it must be a Simple tightening of a valve but I have no experience of plumbing at all. Thanks I hope...
    • Stewart Hopkirk
    • Thread
    • overflow pipe water
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Bathroom Advice
  6. J

    Mystery cold water tank overflow

    I have an oil fired boiler supplying ch & hot-water cylinder coil-heating via a pressurised primary circuit. I have two venturi type showers located on the first floor supplied by mains cold and hw from the cylinder located on the ground floor. The other taps (mixer) in the house are fed from...
    • Jobie
    • Thread
    • cold overflow tank water water tank
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Bathroom Advice
  7. S

    Running overflow pipe underneath floorboards as saniflo waste

    Hi all. I have just looked at a job where the customer requires a wc and basin fitted in an elderly relative's room 7meters away from the soil stack in the kitchen. I have decided to fit a Sanitop macerator to pump the waste up to the ceiling and run 22mm pipe through the joists to the soil...
  8. R

    Strange toilet overflow position

    Working away up north at the moment in what must be the oldest Travelodge going! Anyway, went to have a shower earlier and I was showering away when an overflow elbow poking out of the tile low in the corner caught my eye. Have never seen this done before, was it sometimes the way before the...
    • Rybo_1
    • Thread
    • overflow toilet
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Boilers
  9. S

    permanently dripping overflow

    I'm not sure if this is the correct forum as you will see below. I have a multifuel gravity system with an electric immersion heater in the cylinder. The external overflow has a constant drip all year round. I've been in the loft where there are x3 tanks, the largest I assume is the main cold...
  10. P

    Astracast sink with no overflow....customer not happy

    I was asked to buy a beige bowl and a half kitchen sink for a customer to replace his old Franke sink. I bought an Astracast and half way through fitting it I noticed there was no overflow so I rang Astracast and she said the smaller bowl was the overflow and said to tell the customer not to...
  11. R

    Overflow street elbow

    Been on a few installs over the years where I've thought a overflow street would come in so handy. Do they exist? Has anyone here come across one?
  12. W

    Overflow Pipe Insulation - Does it need it?

    Hi there, I was wondering if anyone knew weather or not an overflow/warning pipe connected to the CWSC and F&E tank in the loft needed to be insulated? Can't find anything in building regs or WRAS. I could be missing something though. Thanks in advance :-)
  13. P

    Street. M/f overflow bends

    Can you get them ??!
  14. P

    Bath Overflow Sealing

    Hey guys, Recently managed to get shot of an awful bath I purchased stupidly from one of the DIY chains... now looking at some Carron ones. There's so many baths with a curved end at the taps these days and the one thing that's bugging me crazy is how do people out there fit the overflow...
  15. D

    persistant drip from loft cold water storage overflow

    Hi, I'm not sure if this should be in plumbing or heating section, so apologies if I have posted in wrong forum I have 2 cold water storage tanks in loft, & the smaller one, which I understand to be the water supply for a vented heating system, is constantly dripping via the overflow outside...
    • dripdripdrip
    • Thread
    • cold overflow water
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Bathroom Advice
  16. R

    Overflow pipe leaking require advice

    Hi I noticed yesterday water pouring out from a pipe from the top of our house its leaking water over the garden and its on and off occurring. I think its the overflow pipe since it appears connected to the water tank in my attic, so I made a trip up there and moved the top cover of the...
  17. O

    Tank overflow

    Hi I have a small tank in the roof for the heating. When the heating is on for the rads and the cylinder the overflow start running. could this be a blocked pipe ?
  18. C

    small central heating tank overflow pipe constantly dripping

    Hi all, hope someone can help me with this ongoing problem. The central heating overflow pipe drips constantly even with central heating off and water cold with no immersion on. Its an oil fired 30 year old system which also has a back boiler. I have emptied small tank to well below overflow...
    • chimo
    • Thread
    • central central heating heating overflow pipe tank
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Central Heating Forum
  19. W

    is there a fitting to connect overflow pipe to w/m spigot on sink waste?

    thanking you
  20. Neil T

    overflow from cylinder

    Just been to look at a overflow problem at kids day care centre. The c/w cistern kept filling to point of overflow. I checked valve and replaced washer and float as both were looking dated. Dropped water level and left it for a few hours. Went back and level is back up and overflowing again. As...
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